Category: Surviving Daily
If the Mind Believes What It Hears Most — What Are We Teaching It About Safety?
There’s a reason children learn the alphabet through songs. There’s [...]
You’re Not Broken. You Were Trained to Survive Chaos.
Some of us were raised in rooms where silence was survival.
Where lov [...]
💭 Why Do Women Always End Up Doing All the Emotional Work?
You’re not imagining it.
Every time peace needs patching, s [...]
What Happens When Women Fully Stop Performing Labor For the Male Gaze?
Words That Tried to Tame Women For generations, women have been sha [...]
Black Women Have Always Spoken Truth to Power — and We Still Will
In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination ar [...]
🌿 Faith, Healing, and the Work of Safe People
People who support Survivors—from all walks of life—should know th [...]
Twelve Steps to Danger: How Alcoholics Anonymous Can Be a Playground for Violence-Prone Members (from ProPublica)
Karla Brada Mendez thought that she was getting a second chance on lif [...]
“Why Are Women Still Told to Have Faith in Men Who ‘Rebrand’ Themselves?”
“If his change requires your suffering to prove it, it isn’t change [...]
“Why Do We Treat Male ‘Change’ Like a Sacred Revelation Instead of a Responsibility?”
A man "changes". Why do we women receive this as our "marching orde [...]
Why Are Women Still Expected to Risk Our Safety Just to Exercise?
Like so many Survivors of childhood sexual violence — and other form [...]